Consider the $p$-th tensor power $\mathcal{M}^{\otimes p}$. The group $\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}$ acts by cyclic permutations on it. Denote its generator by $\sigma$. There is a map from coinvariants to invariants $$(\mathcal{M}^{\otimes p})_{\sigma}\xrightarrow{1+\sigma+\dots+ \sigma^{p-1}}(\mathcal{M}^{\otimes p})^{\sigma}$$ Its kernel is canonically isomorphic to $F^*\mathcal{M}$ via the map $s\mapsto s^{\otimes p}$. This is proven in Lemma 6.9 here:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.08784v1.pdf for the affine case and the general case follows by functoriality. Edit: By the way, its cokernel is also isomorphic to $F^*\mathcal{M}$.